FULL QUOTES PART 1
CHUCKIE SOL: This has been a long time coming, fellas. Three years on the plates alone. But you'll find the product worth the wait. Go ahead. Take a good look, boys.
JAKE: Jeez, Mr. Sol, I can't tell the difference.
CHUCKIE SOL: You'd need a neutron microscope. Identical, to Ben Franklin's stubble. I want half a mil a week laundered in the casino. Three-quarter mil by March. Anybody got a problem with that?
ALL: The Bat!
CHUCKIE SOL: Get him!
BATMAN: Chuckie Sol.
CHUCKIE SOL:
Batman, how'd you get here?
THE PHANTASM: Your Angel of Death awaits.
CHUCKIE SOL: You ain't the Bat! Who are you? What do you want?
THE PHANTASM: I want you, Chuckie-boy.
CHUCKIE SOL: This time I got you, you lousy, stinking... What?
MAN 1: Look!
MAN 2: Good Lord!
MAN 1: What happened?
MAN 2: Hey, look! It's Batman!
ARTHUR REEVES: I'm telling you, it's vigilantism at its deadliest. How many times are we gonna let Batman cross the line?
JAMES GORDON: Councilman, you can't blame Batman for what happened to Chuckie Sol.
ARTHUR REEVES: Why not? He's a loose cannon, commissioner. It's not just my opinion. A lot of people, including the police think Batman's as unstable as the crooks. What kind of city are we running when we depend on the support of a potential madman?
ALFRED PENNYWORTH: Such rot, sir. Why, you're the very model of sanity. By the way, I pressed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls.
BRUCE WAYNE: Thank you, Alfred.
ALFRED PENNYWORTH: Might one inquire what this is?
BATMAN: A piece of windshield from Chuckie Sol's car. There's a chemical residue on it. A dense, long-chain macromolecular polymer. Adaptogenic, of course.
ALFRED PENNYWORTH: Of course.
ANDREA BEAUMONT: I should be landing any minute.
It'll be good to see you again.
ARTHUR REEVES: You too and don't worry about a thing. We'll clear up these old family finances. Don't forget, you've got a bigtime councilman on your side.
ANDREA BEAUMONT: I can't believe it's been 10 years.
ARTHUR REEVES: Thinking of looking up some old friends?
ANDREA BEAUMONT: Arthur, don't start that again. He's ancient history.
ARTHUR REEVES: That's encouraging. I'll see you soon.
WOMAN 1: Oh, come on, Bruce! All alone in this big mansion. Haven't you ever thought about marriage, even once?
WOMAN 2: Never say the "M" word in front of Bruce. It makes him nervous.
WOMAN 3: What about the "I" word?
BRUCE WAYNE: The "I" word?
WOMAN 3: "Ingagement."
WOMAN 4: I'd watch out for Brucie if I were you, girls. He makes you think you're the only woman he's ever been interested in. And just when you're wondering where to register the China he forgets your phone number. That's Bruce Wayne's style.
WOMAN 1: Bruce?
BRUCE WAYNE: Excuse me.
ARTHUR REEVES: Friend in need?
BRUCE WAYNE: Councilman.
So how goes the Bat bashing?
ARTHUR REEVES: Better than your love life. You seem to pick them knowing there's no chance for a serious relationship. Since that one girl. What was her name? Anne? Andi? Andrea? Yes, Andrea Beaumont! There was a sweet number. How'd you let her get loose?
BRUCE WAYNE: Thanks for the handkerchief, Arthur. You know where you can stick it. Andrea...
ANDREA BEAUMONT: If Daddy gets any more protective, he'll build a moat around my bedroom. Times like this I wish you were around to...
BRUCE WAYNE: Excuse me. I thought you were saying something. To me, I mean.
ANDREA BEAUMONT: No.
BRUCE WAYNE: OK.
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Movie review

"Overall, the film is stylishly dark in the manner of the Tim Burton "Batman" films and the graphic novels of the late '80s. Even the story line here seems more adult-oriented than the animated series's action-plots. "Mask of the Phantasm" is a love story, of sorts, tracing Bruce Wayne/Batman's relationship to Andrea Beaumont, who comes into his life at a time of self-doubt about the self-imposed burden of justice and vengeance. The voices are good too, from Gary Conway's brooding Batman and Mark Hamill's insane Joker, to Dana Delany's troubled Andrea. As usual, it's the colorful and loquacious Joker who is most riveting. Shirley Walker's orchestral score is also quite powerful." (By Richard Harrington, Washington Post Staff Writer, December 27, 1993)

Trivia

One scene depicts Bruce Wayne at his parents' tombstone saying "I didn't count on being happy." According to writer Michael Reaves, this scene was to be a pivotal moment in Bruce's tragic life, as he denies himself the opportunity to live a normal life. "When Bruce puts on the mask for the first time, and Alfred says 'My God!' he's reacting in horror, because he's watching this man he's helped raise from childhood, this man who has let the desire for vengeance and retribution consume his life, at last embrace the unspeakable."